EU step closer to ordering Chanel No 5 changes

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Chanel No 5 may be made to change some key ingredientsBill Hogan/Getty Images

Tony Bonnici

Last updated at 8:34AM, February 14 2014

Leading brands of perfume — including Chanel No 5 — may be forced to change
their fragrance as the European Union moves closer to imposing a ban on some
of their key ingredients.

A report by the EU’s Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS) in 2012
found that three allergens — HICC and the moss extracts atranol and
choroatranol, which give a woody bouquet — were deemed “not safe”.

Now the EU Consumer Affairs Commissioner is taking up the case, with the aim
of banning or curtailing the use of 23 ingredients, typically found in scent.